List of people on stamps of Albania
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This is a list of people honored on the postage stamp
s of Albania
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The list is complete through 1973.
Postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper that is purchased and displayed on an item of mail as evidence of payment of postage. Typically, stamps are made from special paper, with a national designation and denomination on the face, and a gum adhesive on the reverse side...
s of Albania
Albania
Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
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The list is complete through 1973.
- Gjergj Arianiti, military general (1968)
- Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
, composer (1970) - Pavel BelyayevPavel BelyayevPavel Ivanovich Belyayev , , was a Soviet fighter pilot with extensive experience in piloting different types of aircraft...
, Soviet astronaut (1965) - Ismet Brucaj, hero (1969)
- Pjeter BudiPjetër BudiPjetër Budi , known in Italian as Pietro Budi, was a bishop of Sapë and the author of four religious works in Albanian. He is a noted and respected figure of Albanian cultural history...
, writer (1966) - Valeri Bykovski, Soviet astronaut (1963)
- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter (1973)
- Fuat Çela, hero (1969)
- Andon Zako ÇajupiAndon Zako ÇajupiAndon Zako Çajupi was a leading Albanian rilindas, poet, and playwright writer that actively participated in the Albanian National Awakening.-Biography:...
, poet (1950,1966) - Nicolaus CopernicusNicolaus CopernicusNicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe....
, astronomer (1973) - Ndoc Deda, hero (1950)
- Henri Dunant, Red Cross founder (1963)
- Albrecht DürerAlbrecht DürerAlbrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since...
, German painter and engraver (1971) - Agron Elezi, hero (1969)
- Friedrich EngelsFriedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research...
, socialist (1964, 1970) - Abdyl FrashëriAbdyl FrashëriAbdyl Frashëri People's Hero of Albania was an Albanian diplomat, politician, writer, and a first political ideologue of the Albanian National Awakening through the League of Prizren...
, patriot (1968) - Naim FrasheriNaim FrashëriNaim Frashëri was an Albanian poet and writer. He was one of the most prominent figures of the Albanian National Awakening of the 19th century, together with his two brothers Sami and Abdyl...
, writer (1950, 1986, 2000) - Sami Frasheri, writer (1950, 1960)
- Yuri GagarinYuri GagarinYuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961....
, Soviet astronaut (1962, 1963) - Countess Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi, queen (1938)
- Naim Gjylbegaj, hero (1950)
- Mihal GramenoMihal GramenoMihal Grameno was an Albanian rilindas, politician, writer, freedom fighter, and journalist.-Biography:Born in Korçë in a merchant family, he studied there at the local secondary school before emigrating to Romania in 1885...
hero and writer (1958) - Luigj GurakuqiLuigj GurakuqiLuigj Gurakuqi was an Albanian writer and politician. He was an important figure of the Albanian National Awakening and was honoured with the People's Hero of Albania medal.- Life :...
, patriot and politician (1958) - Ahmet Haxhija, hero (1950)
- Enver HoxhaEnver HoxhaEnver Halil Hoxha was a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary andthe leader of Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania...
, president (1947, 1949, 1951, 1968, 1969) - Frédéric Joliot-CurieFrédéric Joliot-CurieJean Frédéric Joliot-Curie , born Jean Frédéric Joliot, was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.-Early years:...
, French physicist (1959) - Zef JubaniZef JubaniZef Jubani born Zef Ndokillia was an Albanian folklorist, philosopher and activist of the Albanian National Awakening. He is known for the publication of a Collection of Albanian Folk Songs and Rhapsodies in the Gheg Albanian dialect. Jubani advocated the creation of a unique alphabet of the...
, writer and scholar (1968) - Ali KelmendiAli KelmendiAli Kelmendi , Hero of Albania under the communist regime, was a Kosovar Albanian communist, an organizer of the communist movement in Albania....
, communist leader (1960) - Myrteza Kepi, hero (1969)
- Kostandin KristoforidhiKostandin Kristoforidhi-Additional readings:*])]*])]*])]*. In: Besa. Nr. 193, Jg. 2007. S. 2–7....
, writer (1950) - Vojo Kushi, hero (1947)
- Vladimir LeninVladimir LeninVladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...
, revolutionary (1957, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1970) - Alexei Leonov, Soviet astronaut (1965)
- Hidajet Lezha, hero (1950)
- Pjetër Lleshi, hero (1969)
- Petro Nini LuarasiPetro Nini LuarasiPetro Nini Luarasi was an Albanian rilindas activist, Christian orthodox priest, teacher and journalist...
, patriot (1956, 1962) - Mary MagdaleneMary MagdaleneMary Magdalene was one of Jesus' most celebrated disciples, and the most important woman disciple in the movement of Jesus. Jesus cleansed her of "seven demons", conventionally interpreted as referring to complex illnesses...
(1973) - Mao ZedongMao ZedongMao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...
, Chinese leader (1964, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973) - Karl MarxKarl MarxKarl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
, economist (1957, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1968) - Ndoc Mazi, hero (1950)
- Ndre MjedaNdre MjedaNdre Mjeda was an Albanian Gheg poet. He was influenced by the Jesuit writer Anton Xanoni and the Franciscan poet Leonardo De Martino....
, priest and poet(1966) - Alexander Moissi, actor (1960)
- Nuci Naci (1956)
- Andrian NikolayevAndrian NikolayevAndriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev , was a Soviet cosmonaut. He was an ethnic Chuvash.- History :...
, Soviet astronaut (1963) - Millosh Gjergj NikollaMillosh Gjergj NikollaMillosh Gjergj Nikolla was an Albanian poet and writer. He is better known under his pen name Migjeni.-Life:...
, Migjeni, poet (1961) - Pavel PopovichPavel Popovich- Biography :He was born in Uzyn, Kiev Oblast of Soviet Union . to Roman Porfirievich Popovich and Theodosia Kasyanovna Semyonov. He had two sisters and two brothers ....
, Soviet astronaut (1963) - Ismail QemaliIsmail QemaliIsmail Qemal Bej Vlora or commonly Ismail Qemali and in Turkish İsmail Kemal Bey or İsmail Kemal Vlora , was a distinguished leader of the Albanian national movement, founder of the modern Albanian state and its first head of state and government.-Life:He was born in Avlonya to a noble family...
, patriot, politician (1962, 1972) - Jeronim de Rada, poet (1964)
- Adem Reka, hero (1969)
- Vasil ShantoVasil ShantoVasil Shanto was an Albanian communist leader and a hero of World War II. He was one of the leaders of Shkodër communist group and one of the founders of Albanian Communist Party. He did much work in organizing the resistance units and recruiting nationalist figures...
(1947) - Muhamet Shehu, hero (1969)
- Gjergj Kastrioti, SkanderbegSkanderbegGeorge Kastrioti Skanderbeg or Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu , widely known as Skanderbeg , was a 15th-century Albanian lord. He was appointed as the governor of the Sanjak of Dibra by the Ottomans in 1440...
, Hero (1913, 1951, 1968) - Pandeli SotiriPandeli SotiriPandeli Sotiri was an Albanian activist that acted as director of the first Albanian school of modern times in Korçë. Sotiri was one of the most important Rilindas figures that contributed in the propagation of the Albanian language. He also worked on one of the versions of the Albanian alphabet...
(1956) - Qemal StafaQemal StafaQemal Stafa was a founding member of the Albanian Communist Party, and the leader of its youth section. He was very active in the National Liberation Movement during World War II. He was killed in a house at the outskirts of Tirana by the Italian fascist forces, who had occupied Albania...
, hero (1947, 1972) - Joseph StalinJoseph StalinJoseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
, Soviet leader (1949, 1963, 1969) - Valentina TereshkovaValentina TereshkovaValentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a retired Soviet cosmonaut, and was the first woman in space. She was selected out of more than four hundred applicants, and then out of five finalists, to pilot Vostok 6 on the 16 June, 1963, becoming both the first woman and the first civilian to fly in...
, Soviet astronaut (1963) - Gherman TitovGherman TitovGherman Stepanovich Titov was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on August 6, 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1...
, Soviet astronaut (1963) - Tanush Topia, military general (1968)
- Çerçiz TopulliÇerçiz TopulliÇerçiz Topulli was an Albanian Renaissance armed fighter, writer, and patriot, and is a People's Hero of Albania. He was the younger brother of Bajo Topulli....
, hero (1958) - Pashko VasaPashko VasaPashko Vasa also known as Vaso Pasha or Vaso Pashë Shkodrani, was an Albanian writer, poet and publicist of the Albanian National Awakening, and Governor of Lebanon from 1882 until his death.-Secretary in the British Consulate:From 1842 to 1847 he worked as a secretary for the...
, writer (1960) - Shkurte Vata, hero (1969)
- Naum VeqilharxhiNaum VeqilharxhiNaum Veqilharxhi born Naum Bredhi was an Albanian lawyer and scholar. In 1844, he created a unique alphabet for the Albanian language using characters he had created himself, the Vithkuqi script...
, writer (1958) - Victor Emmanuel III of ItalyVictor Emmanuel III of ItalyVictor Emmanuel III was a member of the House of Savoy and King of Italy . In addition, he claimed the crowns of Ethiopia and Albania and claimed the titles Emperor of Ethiopia and King of Albania , which were unrecognised by the Great Powers...
(1939, 1942) - Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
, Italian polymath (1969) - Jani VretoJani VretoJani Vreto was an Albanian writer, publisher and important figure of the Albanian National Awakening.- Life :Jani Vreto was born in Postenan, a village near Leskovik, southern Albania in 1822...
, writer (1960) - Zog of AlbaniaZog of AlbaniaZog I, Skanderbeg III of the Albanians , born Ahmet Muhtar Bey Zogolli, was King of the Albanians from 1928 to 1939. He was previously Prime Minister of Albania and President of Albania .-Background and early political career:...
, king (1925, 1928, 1930, 1938)